Identification button



June 11, 1940. J JONES 2,204,313

IDENTIFICATION BUTTON Filed Dec. 17, 71938 PatentedJune 11, 1940 i f 2,204,313 IDENTIFICATION BUTTON 7 Anita J. Jones, Beverly Hills, Calif. Application December 17, 1938, Serial No..246,392

2 Claims. (c1. 4o-1o)' element of a fastener or button partof the finder. Figure 5 is a perspectiveof one form of identl fication element to be encased in the receiver This invention is an identification device embodied in the general form of a buttonl It is desirable to provide an ornate, sufficiently conspicuousand practical, indicia-protective de- 5 vice for the efi'ective identification of the. owner of various articles ofperson'al property which may have been lost. For instance, when one of an expensive pair of gloves is lost the finder can have no reasonable use of the found glove, at least for dress purposes, and ordinarily the finder of such a lost glove, having a fair opportunity and free from expense to himself or. herself would gladly return the gloveto the rightful 'owner.

not of matched type or class, would return the found article if without personal inconvenience.

It is particularly an object to provide a glove identification device incorporative in an usual element of the glove so as to avoid application of an extra orunnecessary element or means aside from usualglove features. Therefore a purpose is to provide an improved button-like or other appropriate form of fastener distinguished by a construction enabling the protective encasement therein of a simple address bearing ticket, sheet or card which may be fairly readily removed by the finder in event of the loss of the glove, or such other article, to which the finder as it may be called, is attached.

A further object is to providev a finder device of this type readily embodiable in buttons or fasteners of more or less conventional shape, and having one or another of divers provisions for the attachment of the button or fastener involving the novel identification feature, to the desired article to be so marked as to ownership.

The invention consists of certain advancements in this art as set forth in the ensuing disclosure and having, with the above, additional objects and advantages as hereinafter developed, 7

and whose construction, combinations and details of means, and the manner of operation willbe made manifest in the description of the herewith illustrative embodiments; it being understood that modifications, variations and adaptations may be resorted to Within'the scope, principle and spirit of the invention as it is more directly claimed hereinbelow. I

Figure 1 is a perspective of a glove having an applied finder identification device, and fastener combination.

Figure 2 is a detail, axial section of the device. Figure 3 is an axial section of a fastener-stud embodiment.

And frequently finders of other articles,

Figure 4 is a face plan of the top or outer part of the device.

. Figure 6 isan edge elevational view of a basal "part of the device adapted for stitching-ontoa given article.

Figure! is an edge elevation of. a base part with prongs for attachment. I

Figure 8 is a side elevation of an open, hinged type of the device, and

Figure 9 is a side elevation of a detachable,

clamp-on embodiment.

There is here provided a simple sheet, card or other member 2 for, theapplication of the indicia-as to the address-'or-other notice for the location of the owner ofthe article, as a glove.

G, in event that the glove is lost or mislaid, and by which information the person finding the lost article may locate or find the owner. This the identification member 2. v

This member is preferably flexible and of resilient material so that it will expand in the cavity and lodge back of. shoulder thereabout.

the mouth or of the The shell 4 is suitably relatively v movably mounted on a basal or attaching element which, in Figs. 2, 3, 6 and 7 has a threaded, neck 1 onto which may be screwed a complementary barrel part 4' of the shell member 2 has been inserte 4,. after the address d in the shell cavity;

not shown.

The base part 6 of Fig. 6 is adapted for stitch 'ing I0. I

In Fig. 7 the base 6 has ment.

A modified form of the device is shown in vided with a stud 9 to fit a complementary socket,

prongs II for secureable tothe given article.v

the shell may have a resilient hook [3 to fric-.

tionally engage the oppose the shell closed.

One edge portion of d base edge and hold Another hinged type of the owner finder is shown in Fig. 9 and in which the shell 4 is spring hinged at M to normally frictionally grip on the marginal portion of the article so that the finder may be readily removed for use on any of different articles. In this form a securing prong l5 may be used to fasten the shell in place. t In order that the identification purpose of the notice-containing shell 4 may be made instantly observable it is provided with a window opening l6 which may or may not be sealed by a transparency IT.

A person finding such an identified glove or other article will naturally open the shell member 4 and inspect the notice, and in many cases will go to the trouble of notification according to the instruction given on the indicia member 2.

Fig. 2 shows the shell 4 having a neck 4' with a small out turned flange at its bottom. The shell 4 of Figs. 8 and 9 is of the same section as Fig. 2 without threads, but the said neck flange is widened as at i to form a fiat leaf with a hinge I2 or l4, as in Figs. 8 and 9.

What is claimed is:

1. A device consisting of a hollow body with an access opening in its bottom, an indicia element insertible into the body through the opening, and a base member having a fastener part for attachment to a given article and forming a closure for said opening and retaining the said element in the hollow body, and the body and the base member being hingedly connected.

2. In an identification device; the combination comprising a base member having a fastener part for attachment to a given article, a hollow un-encased or coverless body more or less of button form and having a mouth in its bottom and providing for access to the interior and said base member being attached to the bottom of the body for ready opening movement of the latter as to the base and the base constituting the direct closure for the access mouth; the body being adapted to be readily charged when open with a suitable identification means and as readily opened for inspection without mutilation of the body and the base member and the body including attaching means having mutual, temporarily interlocking parts separable by manual effort without use of mechanical appliances and without a resulting permanent distortion of either of the mutual parts; whereby to provide for re-use of the assembly parts, one of said interlocking parts being in the form of a marginaL'resilient snap clamp to yieldably grip onto the complementary, other part.

ANITA J. JONES. 

